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title = "A Large Rated Lexicon with {F}rench Medical Words",
author = "Grabar, Natalia and
Hamon, Thierry",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Goggi, Sara and
Grobelnik, Marko and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Mazo, Helene and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'16)",
month = may,
year = "2016",
address = "Portoro{\v{z}}, Slovenia",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/L16-1420",
pages = "2643--2648",
abstract = "Patients are often exposed to medical terms, such as anosognosia, myelodysplastic, or hepatojejunostomy, that can be semantically complex and hardly understandable by non-experts in medicine. Hence, it is important to assess which words are potentially non-understandable and require further explanations. The purpose of our work is to build specific lexicon in which the words are rated according to whether they are understandable or non-understandable. We propose to work with medical words in French such as provided by an international medical terminology. The terms are segmented in single words and then each word is manually processed by three annotators. The objective is to assign each word into one of the three categories: I can understand, I am not sure, I cannot understand. The annotators do not have medical training nor they present specific medical problems. They are supposed to represent an average patient. The inter-annotator agreement is then computed. The content of the categories is analyzed. Possible applications in which this lexicon can be helpful are proposed and discussed. The rated lexicon is freely available for the research purposes. It is accessible online at \url{http://natalia.grabar.perso.sfr.fr/rated-lexicon.html}",
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%A Hamon, Thierry
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%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Goggi, Sara
%Y Grobelnik, Marko
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Mazo, Helene
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
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%8 May
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%C Portorož, Slovenia
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Markdown (Informal)
[A Large Rated Lexicon with French Medical Words](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1420) (Grabar & Hamon, LREC 2016)
ACL
- Natalia Grabar and Thierry Hamon. 2016. A Large Rated Lexicon with French Medical Words. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2643–2648, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).